Class V. Order V. 

 1'ENTJIGYNM. 



93. ARALIA. 

 ARALIA NUDICAULIS. L. Wild Sarsaparilla. 



Stemless, leaves decompound, scape leafless. 

 Willd. 



A veil known aromatic root. It has no stem unles the ter- 

 mination of the root be so considered. Leaves on long stalks, 

 subdivided into three times three, or three times five leafets, 

 which are oval and serrate. The scape rises between the leaf 

 stalks, and supports a few simple umbels. Woods and thick- 

 ets, May, June. Perennial. 



ARALIA RAOEMOSA. L. Pettymorrel. Spikenard. 



Stem herbaceous, smooth ; leaves decompound; 

 peduncles axillary, branching, unibelled. Willd. 



Tall and irregulaly branched. Stem smooth, dark green or 

 red. Leafets large, ovate or heart-shaped, serrate. Flowers 

 in small umbels, which are again arranged in branching racemes, 

 from the axils or forks of the stem. In woods. June, July. 



It is aromatic and in high estimation \\ ith people of the coun- 

 try. 



ARALIA HISFIDA. Jllich. Bristly Jlrulia. 



Stem shrubby at base, hispid ; leaves twice pin- 

 Aate ; leafets cut serrate ; urnbe Is on long pedun- 

 cles. Mich. air. 



The lower part of the stem endures the winter, and has a 

 shrubby appearance,, but most of the herb is annual. The stem 

 is set with thick and stiff bristles at the base. Leafets much 

 smaller than in the preceding, sharply and unequally serrate, 

 ending in a long point. Umbels several, on long peduncles. 

 Woods, Cambridgeport. June. 



